Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Tombstone Tuesday - A Pair of Husbands


WILLIAM SPENCER
DIED
Dec. 10, 1900
AGED
84 yrs 6 mos
14 ds


         

WILLIAM S. PRICE
DIED
Oct. 24, 1861
AGED
32 yrs 5 ds

These identical gravestones in the front of Rowley Cemetery, Locke Township, Ingham County, Michigan, are the first and second husbands of Margaret Rosa Price Spencer.  Margaret first married William S. Price about 1852, perhaps in Locke Township.  After Price died in 1861, Margaret married William Spencer on 18 April 1864 in Locke.  Spencer is the younger brother of my ancestor, Wright Spencer.  William and Margaret eventually retired to Perry Village a few miles north.

copy of William Spencer and Margaret Rosa Price's marriage record


Price and Spencer monument

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